Overcoat



Dec. 15, 1 942, c. B. SHANE 2,305,499

OVERGOAT Filed Sept. 18, 1941 Patented Dec. 15, 1942 OVERCOAT Conrad B. Shane, Wilmette, m. a I Application September 18,1941, Serial No. 411,271

.4 Claims ota-97y This invention relates to a sleeved outer garment, such as a topcoat or overcoat. The present improvements have to do with/the construction of such a garment by which it may be fitted with a removable body lining. .More particularly, as will hereinafter appear, my invention is concerned with an improved connection between the garment and the lining therefor.

, It is common practice to secure linings removably to outer garments with the aid of slide fasteners. r carried on tapes extended from the bottom of v the coat adjacent one side, upwardly 'aro,und the coat neck, and then downwardly to a corresponding point adjacent the opposite coat side. While such a] separable fastening has many ad-.

vantages, if the coat be properly constructed, it

coat, a portion of the fly being turned back to expose one of the'button holes therebeneath;

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view, as though a transverse section taken on line 3 -3 of Figs. 2;

gin. place and secured Such devices comprise metallic parts 1 and . Fig. 4, which is a similar view, shows the lining v to thecoat by one of the button fastenings.

The presenttopcoat or overcoat C, which may be made from any suitable fabric material; comprises opposed fronts lil each having," an associated facing ll extending the full length of the garment,as is customary. An invisible connection line.l2 may extend lengthwise of the facing along one edge to secure the facing'inseparably to the body at this point, 'the'opposite facing edge ,being free and unsecured as' will hereinafter be is open to the obj'ection of being relatively heavy, 1

it stands out slightly so as to protrude'in coincidence with a line in which extra weight is concentrated, and the fly within which such a fastening is concealed tends also to open out, particularly in the neck region, so that the coat is apt not to lie perfectly smooth. 'While' these'undesirable effects can largely be minimized'if the coat be properly constructed, they tend, particularly in the cheaper garments, to impair the value of the coat in the minds of many users.

described in detail. LSleeves It may be attached I to the garmentoppositear m holes'therein, which are in register with other arm holes in the body I lining L presently to bedescribed. I

" Upon theinner side of the facing, adjacent its free edge, 'is'a tapezfl secured thereto by a line of stitching M which alsopasses through a piping 23 extending along'the proximate edges'of the facing and tape. A second lin of stitching 22 With a View toward'producti'on of a coatin which the removable lining may be secured in a way which will overcome the deficiencies just noted, the improvements of my present invention have been devised. The fastening herein disclosed may be of the ordinary button or snap button type, but its securement in the coat. is effectually concealed by the special means hereinafter described. The fly which covers the cooperating button elements. when the lining is in place, tends to remain down in. place as distinguished from the flieswhich have been provided in previous coats having separable'fas-v teningsfor the lining. In this respect, as well as in others which will be hereinafter noted, the present invention presents positive advantages.

A suggestive embodiment of my invention wherein buttons and button holes are illustrated, by way of example, as one suitable form of fastening, is set forth in the accompanying drawing wherein: I

Figure 1 is a view of an overcoat or topcoat, looking toward the inside, and showing thelining therefor in place except along the right hand side where it is partly detached;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary detail in elevation of the facing as it appears when applied to the interconnects the opposite edge of the tape with the facing and with one edge of a binding 26 whose opposite'turnededgeis connected with the coat as by an invisible stitching line 24. The tape is desirably'made of some unshrunk, loosely wovengfabric'such as cotton, and the two lines of stitching, which connect it to the facing are shown as extendingalong the tape edges in spaced apart relation. The facing on the other hand, which may be of a woolen fabric, is desirablypr'e-shrunkto the extent at least of an initial shrinking so that its capacity for further shrinking is much reduced. The materials so conditioned are then combined together in the manner already. described.

Prior to securement with'th e facing; the tape may be run through a machine which fabricates reinforced button holes'25"therein at spacedintervals apart.

' extending transversely of the tape, although this These button holes are shown as is entirely optional. When the tape is secured to the facing, the binding is then associated therewith to provide a .medium by which the tape, along its inner edge, may be connected indirectly to the coat front. This binding remains inseparably connected both to the tape and to thecoat through the medium of the spaced Stltt hing lines 22 and 24.

Referring nowto Fig. 3, the facing with applied Flea tape-assembly,

front, provides in the region between the stitching line 22 and the free edge bound with piping 23 a fly which tends normally to lie flat. The facing assembly remains inseparably joined to the coat through the medium of the concealed interconnecting binding and also through the invisible stitching II. In use the coat, minus its detachable lining, presents an appearance much the same as any unlined coat, the presence of the tape with button holes being effectively concealed and offering no bulge, protrusion, or weight concentration which will affect the hanging of the garment or its appearance from the outside. This satisfactory condition is largely the result shown as connected to the coatfrom one edge of the coat and terminating in a free edge portion providing a fly, a tape secured Y along its opposite edges directly to the under of using materials which are interrelated as above described because, when the coat is flrst steampressed during fabrication or upon completion, the unshrunk tape will contract while the facing remains as before, thereby producing upon the fly, with the aid of the binding '26, a pulling force which tends indefinitely to draw and hold the fly down flat against the fabric parts to the underside thereof.

Referring now to Fig. 4, the lining edge which is shown as bound with piping 33 secures thereunder one edge of a tape 3| which may be extended continuously around the sides and top of the lining so that, when the lining is fltted to the coat, the tape 3| will lie opposite the facing tape with the bound edge of the lining occupying a position adjacent the binding 26 as well. A line of stitching 32 may also be used to secure the remote edge of the tape 3| to the lining. With this tapefastened to the lining, a plurality of buttons 33 are then secured, as by, threads 34, to the lining, theconnecting threads passing through to take hold of the tape 3| to the inner side thereof so as to provide a strong and satisfactory anchorage therefor. These buttons correspond in number and position to the holes in the tape so as tojbe cooperable therewith when the lining is to be applied to the coat and worn as a unit therewith.

When connected for use with the coat, the lining edges remain concealed within the fly continuously forthe full distance around the coatboth fronts, across the shoulders, and behind the neck. Thecharacter of the lining, i. e.', its capacity for ready attachability or detachability,

' remains effectively concealed, and its fit within the coat, as well as the flt and appearance of the coat, with assembled lining, upon the wearer is not impaired in the least by the presence of the fastening elements and the parts associated therewith, all of which are'secured fixedly in side of the facing only, with one secured edge of the tape adjacent the free edge of the fly,

means connected to the opposite secured edge portion of the tape and also connected to the coat along a line spaced from said edge portion of the, tape in a direction toward the free edge of the fly whereby to draw the fly downwardly upon the coat, a lining having an edge portion receivable beneath the flyffand cooperative fasteners on the tape and lining to detachably connect the one to the other. I i

3. A coat having a facing extending inwardly I from one edge of the coat and terminating in a free edge providing a fly, a tape applied to the under side of the facing "adjacent its free edge, a continuous line of connection between one edge of the tape 'and'the free edge of the fly, and a second line of connection between the opposite edge of the .tape and the facing and cooperating with the first connection to maintain the tape flat, means secured to the tape at said second line of connection and to the coat at a point remote from said connection and in the direction of the free edge of the fly whereby to drawthe fly downwardly upon the coat, a lining having an edge portion receivable beneath the fly, and cooperablefasteners carried by the tape and lining place or remain subject to a force which normally tends to keep them so.

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1. A coat having a facing extending inwardly from one edge of the coat and terminating in a free edge portion providing a fly. a tape secured adapted to detachably connect the lining to the coat.

- 4. A coat, a body lining fltted within the coat, and -a detachable connection between the coat and the body lining comprising a facing extending upon the inner side of the coat and having a free edge portion providing a continuously extending fly, a "tape 'secured along both, of its edges directly to the facing so as to, hold the tape flat thereon for movement therewith relative to the coat, one of the secured edges of the tape lying adjacent the free edge of the fly, and a binding strip extending from the opposite secured edge of the fly and secured under tension to the coat so as to provide an indirect connection between the facing and coat extending beneath the tape and actingto draw the fly downwardly to a normally flat closed position upon the coat.

CONRAD B. SHANE. 

